Gary Numan - Dance POLL

In fact, just seen this post that was in the Gary Numan Digest back in 1999...

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:12:14 -0800
From: err✧✧✧@earthl✧✧✧.n✧✧
Subject: Possible interpretation for My Brother's Time
To: nu✧✧✧@c✧.u✧✧.e✧✧

I remember Gary saying that Dance was a record based around ideas he had
for a film (story?) in which the world was female-centric, women in
charge being the norm. The prostitutes are all male in this world and
the only form of release for them was to be found in the act of dancing.
Kind of like the opposite of that movie The Handmaid's Tale. So, he's a
tarted up little guy on the cover, with exaggerated pancake makeup,
trying to look winsome.

So maybe there is some truth in it.

Ended up voting for 'Boys Like Me', not only because of its great Karn bassline but I can't help but think it would have made a better single than 'She's Got Claws'

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Just been searching around in order to find out how often this material has actually been performed live:

'Stories' was first performed live on the tour for Telekon.
'Cry, The Clock Said' was performed as part of the "farewell" shows in '81, but not in full (only the intro up to the first verse)
'She's Got Claws' was also performed as part of the "farewell" shows in '81 - they used a backing track with Mick Karn's bassline on it during the performance. The version on Living Ornaments '81 captures Ced Sharpley going out of sync with the bassline at the end of the song. It was also played on the US '82 tour for I, Assassin.
'Crash' was played on the US '82 tour, and also has been performed live in recent years.
'Night Talk' was played live once in 2004 (I think?) but not since.
'Moral' has never been played live as it is on the album, but when the band performed 'Metal' at the Wembley '81 "farewell" shows he sang the lyrics to 'Moral' instead.

'Slowcar To China', 'A Subway Called "You"', 'Boys Like Me', 'My Brother's Time' and 'You Are, You Are', to my knowledge, have never been played live, and even the ones he has played live seem to very, very rarely appear in his sets.

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Yay, the thing I voted for won!

Ended up voting for 'Boys Like Me', not only because of its great Karn bassline

Is Mick on that track? According to the notes on Discogs.com, Mick is only on "Slowcar To China", "A Subway Called You", "She's Got Claws" and "My Brother's Time".

Yeah, he is. He's credited on the album on that track, but I think his playing is so unmistakeable it couldn't have been anyone else, really! He plays on all those other songs listed, as well as an early version of 'We Take Mystery (to Bed)' that came out as a B-side.